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Re:Bayer confirms $66bn Monsanto takeover by mholmes680 on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @09:03AM (#12496398)
The ability to create seeds that can only be controlled by your own pesticides and/or medications could be interesting. and scary. Politics aside, can that be an antitrust issue?

[edit: also, is this another "quiet" inversion also? US loses another business for tax purposes?]

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Re:Bayer confirms $66bn Monsanto takeover by maxerickson on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @09:05AM (#12496425)
I would think that you would look at in in terms of the (for example) corn market rather than in terms of the Agglomerated Monster corn market. So the Agglomerated Monster corn would just be a product in the corn market, not a monopoly in the Agglomerated Monster corn market.
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Re:Bayer confirms $66bn Monsanto takeover by mason240 on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @09:11AM (#12496473)
I googled "Agglomerated Monster corn" and came up with nothing. Is it a scare term for GMO?
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Re:Bayer confirms $66bn Monsanto takeover by maxerickson on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @09:15AM (#12496507)
It's just a made up name with a bit of a sardonic tone to it.

But imagine how fun it would be if they spun out the new entity and named it "Agglomerated Monster Agricultural Products".

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